Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the week Dr. Schacht intervened in negotiations by the City of Berlin with Dillon, Read & Co. for a $14,400,000 loan, squashed it. Berlin understands"that the City was about to hire the money from Dillon, Read for 8.6%, that Dr. Schacht offered to supply it from the Reichybank...
...slower it breathes. A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only last week did the general public learn of her strange case...
Homer nodded; Shakespeare gave Bohemia a seacoast; Michelangelo painted Adam with a navel. Last week the august New York Times slipped and fell. Readers of the Times read a pathetic story about a deer, frightened, running for its life through the streets of Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic...
...inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard...
...officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...